To the editor: Hey, Santa Monica, how about considering exterior the field? As a substitute of constructing the selection between reasonably priced housing or a legendary artwork heart, how about each (“Bergamot Station made Santa Monica an art mecca. Now, it could be replaced by affordable housing,” Sept. 29)?
Westbeth Artists Housing opened in New York Metropolis in 1970 in what had been the headquarters for Bell Phone Laboratories. Deep within the West Village, it supplied sponsored flats and studios for artists. There’s a theater and gallery house within the advanced. What a magical, sensible, supportive place it was and continues to be.
Why not deliver this sensibility to Bergamot? Artists might have residing and studio house at reasonably priced costs, and the galleries would have the ability to proceed and thrive. Construct a theater for readings and performances; there are such a lot of potentialities.
Everybody wins, each the artists and the general public. Lengthy stay the humanities!
BJ Hegedus, Valley Village
